“With Nintendo not having any dev kits out there at this point, and probably even wanting to sell it in 2016, I can already guarantee that they'll just not have any software support, since nobody can just jumble games together in less than a year. I mean, you can, but it'll be garbage.”

Continuing his rant, Mahler also took the time to say that working together with tools firms and studios should be considered by hardware manufacturers as early as possible.

“Get Unity and Epic to support these consoles way ahead of release,” he advised. “By the time the console launches, it should be easy for developers to develop games for these systems, things shouldn't just only start at this point.

“I want the goddamn dev kits or at least proper hardware specs ideally two years before release – keep all the developers updated, start a forum where devs can chat and figure out all the problems everyone's having, instead of everyone just having to deal with it.